The Marriott Corporation operates many hotels throughout the world. Suppose one of its Chicago hotels is facing difficult times because of the opening of several new competing hotels. To accommodate its flight personnel, American Airlines has offered Marriott a contract for the coming year that provides a rate of $70 per night per room for a minimum of 50 rooms for 365 nights. This contract would assure Marriott of selling 50 rooms of space nightly, even if some of the rooms are vacant on some nights. Assume zero variable costs. The Marriott manager has mixed feelings about the contract. On several peak nights during the year, the hotel could sell the same space for $150 per room. Read the requirements. Requirement 1. Suppose the Marriott manager signs the contract. What is the opportunity cost of the 50 rooms on October 20, the night of a big convention of retailers when every nearby hotel room is occupied? What is the opportunity cost on December 28, when only 10 of these rooms would be expected to be rented at an average rate of $100? Let's begin by calculating the opportunity cost of the 50 rooms on October 20. Select the formula, then enter the amounts and calculate the opportunity cost for the night of October 20th. Opportunity cost es Get more help X Xx ・・・ Definition Requirements 1. Suppose the Marriott manager signs the contract. What is the opportunity cost of the 50 rooms on October 20, the night of a big convention of retailers when every nearby hotel room is occupied? What is the opportunity cost on December 28, when only 10 of these rooms would be expected to be rented at an average rate of $100? 2. If the year-round rate per room averaged $110, what percentage of occupancy of the 50 rooms in question would have to be rented to make Marriott indifferent about accepting the offer? Print Done - X Clear all Check answer

McGilla Golf has decided to sell a new line of golf clubs. The company would like to know the sensitivity of NPV to changes in the price of the new clubs and the quantity of new clubs sold. The clubs will sell for $825 per set and have a variable cost of $385 per set. The company has spent $260,000 for a marketing study that determined the company will sell 68,200 sets per year for seven years. The marketing study also determined that the company will lose sales of 12,200 sets of its high-priced clubs. The high-priced clubs sell at $1,195 and have variable costs of $655. The company will also increase sales of its cheap clubs by 14,200 sets. The cheap clubs sell for $415 and have variable costs of $205 per set. The fixed costs each year will be $10,350,000. The company has also spent $2,100,000 on research and development for the new clubs. The plant and equipment required will cost $38,400,000 and will be depreciated on a straight-line basis. The new clubs will also require an…

Billingham Packaging is considering expanding its production capacity by purchasing a new machine, the XC-750. The cost of the XC-750 is $2.77 million. Unfortunately, installing this machine will take several months and will partially disrupt production. The firm has just completed a $45,000 feasibility study to analyze the decision to buy the XC-750, resulting in the following estimates: • Marketing: Once the XC-750 is operational next year, the extra capacity is expected to generate $10.05 million per year in additional sales, which will continue for the 10-year life of the machine. • Operations: The disruption caused by the installation will decrease sales by $5.09 million this year. As with Billingham's existing products, the cost of goods for the products produced by the XC-750 is expected to be 72% of their sale price. The increased production will also require increased inventory on hand of $1.11 million during the life of the project, including year 0. • Human Resources: The…

Forrester Company is considering buying new equipment that would increase monthly fixed costs from $240,000 to $270,000 and would decrease the current variable costs of $70 by $10 per unit. The selling price of $120 is not expected to change. Forrester's current break-even sales are $520,000 and current break-even units are 9,000. If Forrester purchases this new equipment, the revised contribution margin ratio would be:

A bicycle manufacturer currently produces 247,000 units a year and expects output levels to remain steady in the future. It buys chains from an outside supplier at a price of < $2.20 a chain. The plant manager believes that it would be cheaper to make these chains rather than buy them. Direct in-house production costs are estimated to be only $1.40 per chain. The necessary machinery would cost $277,000 and would be obsolete after 10 years. This investment could be depreciated to zero for tax purposes using a 10-year straight-line depreciation schedule. The plant manager estimates that the operation would require $26,000 of inventory and other working capital upfront (year 0), but argues that this sum can be ignored since it is recoverable at the end of the 10 years. Expected proceeds from scrapping the machinery after 10 years are $20,775, If the company pays tax at a rate of 28% and the opportunity cost of capital is 15%, what is the net present value of the decision to produce the…

High electricity costs have made Farmer Corporation's chicken-plucking machine economically worthless. Only two machines are available to replace it. The International Plucking Machine (IPM) model is available only on a lease basis. The lease payments will be $81,000 for five years, due at the beginning of each year. This machine will save Farmer $29,500 per year through reductions in electricity costs. As an alternative, Farmer can purchase a more energy-efficient machine from Basic Machine Corporation (BMC) for $378,000. This machine will save $30,500 per year in electricity costs. A local bank has offered to finance the machine with a $378,000 loan. The interest rate on the loan will be 6 percent on the remaining balance and will require five annual principal payments of $75,600. Farmer has a target debt-to-asset ratio of 60 percent and a tax rate of 21 percent. After five years, both machines will be worthless. The machines will be depreciated on a straight-line basis. a. What is…

Delta Sonic, a chain of full service automotive detailers, is considering introducing a new 15-minute car wash and wax service at one of its Chicago locations. The company expects that sales from the new 15-minute service will be $145,000 per year. Delta Sonic currently offers a 1-hour wash/wax/detail service with annual sales of $267,500. While many of the 15-minute sales will be to new customers who, in the past, could not wait a full hour to have their car detailed, Delta Sonic estimates that 10% of their 1-hour sales will be lost as a result of existing customers switching to the new, faster service. The level of incremental sales associated with introducing the new 15-minute wash/wax service that should be used when analyzing this project is closest to O A. $171,750 B. $14,500 C. $145,000 O D. $26,750 O E. $118,250

Venus Robotics can produce 25,000 robots a year on its daytime shift. The fixed manufacturing costs per year are $2.3 million and the total labor cost is $9.5 million. To increase its production to 50,000 robots per year, Venus is considering adding a second shift. The unit labor cost for the second shift would be 15% higher than the day shift, but the total fixed manufacturing costs would increase only to $2.8 million from $2.3 million. (a) Compute the unit manufacturing cost for the daytime shift. (b) Would adding a second shift increase or decrease the unit manufacturing cost at the plant?

The technique for calculating a bid price can be extended to many other types of problems. Answer the following questions using the same technique as setting a bid price; that is, set the project NPV to zero and solve for the variable in question. Martin Enterprises needs someone to supply it with 155,000 cartons of machine screws per year to support its manufacturing needs over the next five years, and you've decided to bid on the contract. It will cost $1,950,000 to install the equipment necessary to start production; you'll depreciate this cost straight-line to zero over the project's life. You estimate that, in five years, this equipment can be salvaged for $165,000. Your fixed production costs will be $280,000 per year, and your variable production costs should be $10.90 per carton. You also need an initial investment in net working capital of $145,000. The tax rate is 25 percent and you require a return of 14 percent on your investment. Assume that the price per carton is $17.50.…

Hit or Miss Sports is introducing a new product this year. If its see-at-night soccer balls are a hit, the firm expects to be able to sell 42,800 units a year at a price of $70 each. If the new product is a bust, only 20,700 units can be sold at a price of $45. The variable cost of each ball is $26 and fixed costs are zero. The cost of the manufacturing equipment is $5.86 million, and the project life is estimated at 10 years. The firm will use straight-line depreciation over the 10-year life of the project. The firm's tax rate is 35% and the discount rate is 14%. a. If each outcome is equally likely, what is the expected NPV? ( Use the minus sign for negative value. Round your answer to the nearest dollar.) NPV $ Will the firm accept the project? The firm will (Click to select) v the project. b. Suppose now that the firm can abandon the project and sell off the manufacturing equipment for $5.2 million if demand for the balls turns out to be weak. The firm will make the decision to…